You’ll never guess how much Black Sabbath blew on blow in 1972.
Put it this way… they would have snorted a young Pablo Escobar out of house and home (and probably several private zoos).
Turns out back in nineteen diggity, the heavy metal lords budgeted themselves a modest cocaine allowance of $75,000.
Ahem.
SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARYDOOS.
No wonder Ozzy Osbourne was a notoriously piss-licking, ant-snorting, bat-chewing loose canon. Old mate’s nose was stuffed with more snow than every Game Of Thrones forum on the internet right now.
The revelation came from bassist Geezer Butler himself, who confessed that the band spent more on nose candy than their entire 1972 album, Vol. 4, which cost the band just $65K to make.
As Metal Injection reports, the band would have the coke flown in by private plane and, after a certain point, Ozzy had no idea where the shit was even coming from.
In his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, The Prince Of Darkness stated:
Eventually we started to wonder where the fuck all the coke was coming from…I’m telling you: that coke was the whitest, purest, strongest stuff you could ever imagine. One sniff, and you were king of the universe.
And a recent report by Dangerous Minds has even calculated that, with inflation, Black Sabbath spent $426,934.81 on cocaine, to record Vol. 4.
Damn.
Black Sabbath recently announced the Australian leg of their upcoming farewell tour, which is set to take place in April of 2016.
According to Tony Iommi, it’ll most definitely be Aussie fans’ last chance to catch the heavy metal godfathers live in concert. Check out their full list of Aussie tour dates, below.
Listen: Black Sabbath – Snowblind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9yEqYTebNA
Black Sabbath The End Australia/New Zealand Tour Dates 2016
Friday, 15th April
Perth Arena, Perth
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Sunday, 17th April
Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
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Tuesday, 19th April
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
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Saturday, 23rd April
Allphones Arena, Sydney
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Monday, 25th April
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
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Thursday, 28th April
Vector Arena, Auckland
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Saturday, 30th April
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin
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Gallery: Black Sabbath – Allphones Arena, Sydney 27/04/13 / Photos: Peter Coates
Black Sabbath - All Phone Arena, Sydney 27/04/2013
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